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Quality Engineer 1 – Netherlands - Eindhoven

Onsite Full time - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Fixed Term contract - 6 months (to start March/April 2025)

Our Quality Team in Eindhoven is looking for Quality Engineer on a 6 month fixed term contract, to cover maternity leave, and provide support for quality activities within the Illumina Netherlands location.

This role is full time and based onsite Monday to Friday.

Illumina's employee benefits are industry leading and include, Flexible time off, Compassion and care time off, Leisure travel insurance, Pension, Employee Stock Purchasing Program, Volunteer time off and much much more!!

Why You

To be successful as our Quality Engineer you will be proactive and driven individual who thrives in a fast paced environment. You will have strong analytical, problem solving and ideally experience in change control and failure investigation environments. 

You will have excellent communication skills and attention to detail, be well organized and able to work independently as well as working collaboratively as part of the team. 

Your proven experienced to date may include a background in a similar role, including nonconformance and root cause investigations and participation in Quality Management Core processes.  

You will thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoying building relationships with internal stakeholders and functions. 

Like you, we know the importance of your role and offer you a diverse, collaborative and supportive environment in which you are actively encouraged to continually develop your own skills and knowledge. 

The Role

This role is not your normal desk role, regularly you will be within our distribution warehouse, directly resolving issues with colleagues, whilst maintaining paperwork, providing guidance and support and ensuring compliance and quality guidelines are followed.

Responsibilities include:

Provide quality support and leadership to the Eindhoven site operational departments, peer and junior functions within the EMEA team. Provide quality engineering support throughout the product life cycle. Participate in investigations and ensure findings, risks, recommendations and outcomes are appropriate and are clearly documented and communicated through the required and applicable processes and systems Support local and regional reviews of process performance such as Complaint management, non-conformances, supplier performance and CAPA. Trend, analyze, and report on quality data in order to improve product and process. Working with internal customers in understanding Quality processes and requirements and reporting outward correctly to both internal metrics and customer.  Apply experience and knowledge of regulations and standards to manage risks and guide actions independently Develop recommendations based on data analysis Provide management with status updates on assigned responsibilities and goals and escalate issues in a timely fashion. 

Preferred Educational and Experience Background:

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and some related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.  

What can you expect 

Our team members are bright, energetic, and dedicated—they are the driving force behind our innovation and impact. To attract the best and brightest, we offer a competitive employee benefits program including highly competitive salaries accompanied by a market leading benefits package.

You will be part of the global leader in the Sequencing industry where you will find robust growth opportunities and career development within Illumina. 

We view it as a smart investment in our people, one that recognizes the tremendous value they bring to our business every day. At Illumina, we push boundaries. We think beyond the conventional. We dream big. With the energy of so many bright and accomplished people, the opportunities are endless.

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